Thursday, June 20, 2013

Persona Poem


   Chances  

   Lying in the middle of the street
   Cumbersome, adrift , hiding at night
Seems a deliberate attempt

           To watch the lights go out

 With scratchy, disheveled pavement
Under your tender, frail back
Your skin reflects green to yellow then red

  Perhaps for a moment you close your eyes
 As if walking on a balance beam

                Was simply too easy
  But the challenge brought by closed eyes
             Was just enough

As if the cliff seems too high but if
 You close your eyes you’ll be alright

 Maybe driving your car just a bit too fast
         Just to inflame your pulse and feel the rush

                  But watch out for those
                     Beneath the lights

    For strange is there impulsive delight
         
         There cumbersome, adrift hiding at night
  Lying there with scratchy disheveled pavement 
             Under their tender, frail backs

                      They long to feel alive 

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